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Thanks to all of you who voted in the poll I ran a few days ago for the next [livejournal.com profile] 1sentence pairing. Here is the Anita/Jean-Claude pairing. We'll see if any more come out of this... in the meantime, the 50 sentences. Now, back to my lurking.

All He Ever
An Anita Blake story for [livejournal.com profile] 1sentence
by [livejournal.com profile] mhalachaiswords

Fandom: Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter
Pairing: Jean-Claude/Anita
Theme set: Epsilon
Rating: up to PG
Notes: Unlike the Richard/Anita set, Jean-Claude was much more content in thinking about Anita. And why not? He has her, after all. So here we have Jean-Claude's thoughts on Anita, ranging from mildly annoyed to content to romantic to worried, and all points in between.

~~~


01. Motion
She is always moving -- heat beating, lips breathing -- a living contrast to Jean-Claude's stillness.

02. Cool
During their first kiss, in the warm summer rain, Anita's trembling lips burned hot against his coolness.

03. Young
She always looks younger than she is -- except when she's pointing a gun at his heart.

04. Last
He always kisses her as if it is the last time... for all his powers, he cannot see the future.

05. Wrong
Only once has he wondered if he was wrong to make her his human servant.

06. Gentle
He is never as gentle as when he kisses her.

07. One
She is the only one to whom he tells the truth... when she wants it.

08. Thousand
He's been with thousands of women, but the touch of her hands was the first time he knew he was lost.

09. King
Many men want to be king, but they do not know how it is to be subject to the whims of such a queen.

10. Learn
Learning what Anita wants is a never-ending job... most days, he enjoys the lessons.

11. Blur
He still has the ability to blur her vision for a short time, but he finds that he all he wants now is for her to see him clearly.

12. Wait
He knows that if he sleeps with other women, Anita would use such infidelity as an excuse to leave him... so he waits for her.

13. Change
She thinks that he has changed; she will not admit to herself is that she is the one who is different.

14. Command
He will do whatever she commands, because he knows what she will not ask him to do.

15. Hold
When she needs comfort, to be held, she will not allow him to touch her.

16. Need
For over four hundred years, he took blood from his lovers whenever he needed it; now, he waits until she offers.

17. Vision
She says she is not beautiful, but Jean-Claude wishes she could see herself through his eyes.

18. Attention
When she is in his bed, he finds it very easy to command her full attention.

19. Soul
The only times he mourns the loss of his soul is when she lies injured, and he cannot pray for her.

20. Picture
He catches her staring at the portrait of himself, Asher and Julianna, but he cannot bring himself to ask her what she is thinking.

21. Fool
Maybe she makes a fool out of him, but he is in love, and love has made fools out of men for all time.

22. Mad
She is mad at him almost every other week, but he has only once ever directed his anger toward her.

23. Child
Compared to him, she is a child... he loves that innocence and wonder in her.

24. Now
Every day, when he wakes, he wonders what she is doing, and when he will see her, and if she still loves him.

25. Shadow
More and more, a shadow lies over her face, heavy with the weight of the death she causes... he cannot find the words to tell her that he understands.

26. Goodbye
She's left him in the past, but he knows until their deaths it will never be over between them, never be goodbye.

27. Hide
For the longest time, he hid his loneliness... Anita came along and ripped his emotions out for the world to see.

28. Fortune
She has never demanded jewels or clothes or furs -- only him.

29. Safe
Nothing is safe, not their love, not their lives, but he knows that she will never give up on him.

30. Ghost
He waits for the ghosts of his past to drive her away.

31. Book
He silently traces the words he cannot say onto her skin... her skin a living parchment for his love and despair, hopes and fears.

32. Eye
On more than one occasion, when she is refusing to speak to him, he wonders if it would be easier to push a camel through the eye of a needle, than truly understand this woman.

33. Never
There are only two things he will never do for Anita.

34. Sing
She sings so badly that it's cute, and he always has to hide his smile from her.

35. Sudden
He never believed in love at first sight, until he saw her under a streetlight at a bloody crime scene.

36. Stop
There are times she tells him to stop, that he is overwhelming her... he obeys her instantly, even though he fears she will never let him begin again.

37. Time
He drifted from year to year, over the centuries, but now that he has her he feels as though he is running out of time.

38. Wash
He washes her touch from his body after she is gone... he will not hold on to fading memories.

39. Torn
Her heart is so fragile, he fears he will say the wrong thing and tear her apart.

40. History
She studied history, he lived it... she still had a hard time asking him what things were like, so many years ago.

41. Power
His power grows when he is around her; the touch of her body sometimes makes him believe he will live again.

42. Bother
She never pesters him, demanding to know how much he loves her.

43. God
He knows God has abandoned him, but he will never let Anita fall from grace.

44. Wall
Trying to talk to her when she is angry is like trying to shout through a stone wall.

45. Naked
He really likes the way she looks naked... and only part of his enjoyment is sexual.

46. Drive
He wonders if he should learn to drive... it pricks his male pride that she always drives them to dinner.

47. Harm
He cannot protect her from all harm, and that knowledge eats away at him.

48. Precious
For so many years, he had nothing but his looks; now he has everything he ever wanted, and he wonders when he will lose that which is most precious to him.

49. Hunger
He aches to sate all of his hungers with her body... yet he denies himself, so as to not scare her from his bed.

50. Believe
For the first time in five hundred years, he has something to believe in -- her.

Beautiful

Date: 2006-01-29 08:18 pm (UTC)
From: (Anonymous)
Once again, beautiful. You picked up on some stuff that I haven't noticed, or have maybe forgotten, so some sentences were a bit confusing. But nevertheless, they sound like something JC would think. Thanks for writing!

Re: Beautiful

Date: 2006-01-29 08:31 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] mhalachaiswords.livejournal.com
Thank you :)

And it's possible that I'm unconciously picking up on things that either are from fanfic or from my head from future chapters of my fic. Anything in particular?

Re: Beautiful

Date: 2006-01-30 06:32 pm (UTC)
From: (Anonymous)
Um, no.5, 14, 22, 33, 36 and 38. But I repeat, my memory is kind of on holiday now when it comes to Anita Blake novels, it's more concentrated on Chemistry and such!

Date: 2006-01-29 09:12 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] houses7177.livejournal.com
*sigh* I love your JC/AB. You've managed to distill their relationship in 50 sentences, so clear and honest. I love it.

Date: 2006-01-29 09:18 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] mhalachaiswords.livejournal.com
Thank you :) For A/JC is my default relationship, the one I "get" so well it's hard to write sometimes.... but after three days of no writing, I needed a challenge. I like how these turned out.

Date: 2006-01-29 10:25 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] goldenrat84.livejournal.com
*warm fuzzy feeling*
50 sentences that each show another facet of Jean-Claude's feelings for Anita, yet it only scratches the surface.
I can just imagine Jean-Claude thinking these quick little thoughts at random intervals.

Date: 2006-01-30 06:16 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] mhalachaiswords.livejournal.com
Anita and JC are warm and fuzzy, in my mind... at least more warm and fuzzy than Anita/Richard. I think Anita and Micah might also be fuzzy, but I am up and down convinced that Micah's still hiding something. Oh well. Micah comes out next month (Actually, a month yesterday); we'll find out then.

But back to JC's thoughts... I just focused on putting his thoughts in there at random times thoughout the books -- from before GP to during ID. It was interesting :)

Date: 2006-01-29 10:25 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] catherinecookmn.livejournal.com
Nice way of showing how someone like JC could stomach, much less love, someone like Anita. We see her surly side so much that we forget that she is indeed lovable -- even if she herself doesn't think so.

Date: 2006-01-30 06:18 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] mhalachaiswords.livejournal.com
See, now, I've never had a hard time understanding why JC loves Anita so much. Putting up with her is a different story :P

Date: 2006-01-30 01:54 pm (UTC)

Date: 2006-01-30 12:21 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] sabriel-0405.livejournal.com
As always, on target. How nice to come home to this. I didn't vote for this pairing, but I always love them together.

Date: 2006-01-30 06:24 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] mhalachaiswords.livejournal.com
At this point in the series, Anita and JC are the boring old married-like couple... sort of like Ron/Hermione stories. Vanilla. Dull. Except that I totally don't see them that way :)

I will probably get around to writing Anita/Asher at some point... even if I'm not sure what they will have to say about each other. Something angsty, I'm sure.

Date: 2006-01-30 12:40 am (UTC)
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From: [identity profile] thekams.livejournal.com
Aw, I love them!! Such a good look into JC's mind =) Anita sure is one lucky woman, I say!

Date: 2006-01-30 06:24 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] mhalachaiswords.livejournal.com
Glad you liked them :)

Date: 2006-01-30 12:41 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] deathinapinkboa.livejournal.com
lovely. I enjoyed this very much.

Date: 2006-01-30 06:27 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] mhalachaiswords.livejournal.com
Thanks, I'm glad you enjoyed the sentences :)

Date: 2006-01-31 12:52 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] deathinapinkboa.livejournal.com
Oh, and by the way, *places hands on hips and gives you an accusing glance* you've had over a WEEK to update Inevitable...*tapps foot* I'm waiting.

Date: 2006-01-31 01:28 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] mhalachaiswords.livejournal.com
I'll have to refer you to a post I made last week about being on a writing hiatus: http://mhalachaiswords.livejournal.com/144113.html

Work and all.

Date: 2006-01-31 01:33 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] deathinapinkboa.livejournal.com
Well yes, I read that, but still...it's been a week. *shrugs* on well. I'll pretend to live.

Date: 2006-01-31 01:45 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] mhalachaiswords.livejournal.com
I hope so, it'll be another two weeks until the work rush is over.

Date: 2006-01-31 01:48 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] deathinapinkboa.livejournal.com
*goes and marks on calender* okay, you have two weeks and a day. After that prepare for a major bitch fit it I don't get my fix. I'm supplementing with other fanfics, but I'm spoiled and they're just not up to snuff.

Date: 2006-02-14 09:46 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] deathinapinkboa.livejournal.com
It's been two weeks.

*throughs major bitch fit*

I re-read Inevitable. It's fantasic, not only the way you get into the minds of the charactors, but also how you write in the style of J.K. Rowling and Hamilton so well, while still allowing your own voice into the work. You're truly fabulous and if your wrote paper literature I'd deffinaly purchase it. What is wonderful about your work is that you're not bad nor only half decent. You're great, better then a lot of profesional authers, and I need to continue your story. I need to discover that conclusion, but even more then that I want to let the pros wash over me as I slide through the ocean of your words. They're wonderful.

Date: 2006-01-30 01:32 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] az-anneliese.livejournal.com
Oh, it's so pretty! Number 31 is my favorite. :)

Date: 2006-01-30 06:32 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] mhalachaiswords.livejournal.com
Ah, yes, 31. I was wondering if he has a way of telling her things that she doesn't want to hear... this seemed to make the most sense, y'know?

Date: 2006-01-30 01:44 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] kyani-no-kokoro.livejournal.com
You really did a great job with these. I especially like number 46...I can definitely see him thinking that.

Date: 2006-01-30 06:35 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] mhalachaiswords.livejournal.com
You'd have to think for a man who lived with the idea of chivalry for so many years, having his woman drive him everywhere might touch a nerve. I know guys my age who find it emasculating.

You know, just a thought :)

Hee hee

Date: 2006-01-30 01:49 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] stealthyshade.livejournal.com
*hug* Yay! That was really good.

"He likes the way she looks naked"
Well.. duh.
But it was all beautiful.

Re: Hee hee

Date: 2006-01-30 06:36 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] mhalachaiswords.livejournal.com
Thanks

I was trying to get across his enjoyment of her as an individual, not as a sexual object, actually.

Re: Hee hee

Date: 2006-01-30 07:47 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] stealthyshade.livejournal.com
I know, but it was just a point I had to make.

Date: 2006-01-30 02:03 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] mlady-rebecca.livejournal.com
Very cool. You do very well with this format. Some of those single lines carry as much impact as an entire fic.

Date: 2006-01-30 06:38 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] mhalachaiswords.livejournal.com
Thank you! It's all about summarizing -- needing to distill the meaning of the story down to X number of words. What is the meaning of the moment? The thought? I find these a bit more difficult than drabbles, actually. They're a great challenge.

?

Date: 2006-01-30 05:43 am (UTC)
From: (Anonymous)
Love, love, love it! Two things confuse me though.
In #5. I can't remember when in the novels he might thought it, and in #33. I know he won't stop drinking blood for her, but what's the other?
# 9 and 14 were perfect.

Re: ?

Date: 2006-01-30 06:42 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] mhalachaiswords.livejournal.com
#5 and # 33 were more of a thought exercise. They felt like things Jean-Claude might think, at times, about Anita. I can't say for certain what the reasons are... but isn't it more interesting to wonder?

Re: ?

Date: 2006-01-30 06:51 am (UTC)
From: (Anonymous)
Interesting, yes. Something that I'll be compelled to think to death for the next month? Yep.

Re: ?

Date: 2006-01-30 06:54 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] mhalachaiswords.livejournal.com
Hey, I do what I can :)

Re: ?

Date: 2006-01-30 07:11 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] catherinecookmn.livejournal.com
Are you still officially lurking, BTW?

Re: ?

Date: 2006-01-30 07:20 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] mhalachaiswords.livejournal.com
I'm sort of lurking. Nothing much should be expected from me in the next several days. Work picks back up on Wednesday and should be going full-speed for about a week. After THAT, I can get back to ficcing.

Date: 2006-01-31 01:22 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] lunamazes.livejournal.com
hAPPY bIRTHDAY~~~

Date: 2006-01-31 01:30 am (UTC)

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